Issue 136 (May/June 2012)

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What's in the current issue?
Special Report on Cleaning Products
It's time to detox your cleaning this spring with 20 pages of comment and analysis including buyers' guides and Best Buys advice on:
- Laundry detergents
- Washing-up liquid
- Dishwasher detergents
- Household cleaners
- Toilet Cleaners
Plus: Who's best for Fairtrade bananas? - check out our Buyers' guide to Bananas
More info on buyers' guides
New rules for credit unions
Will the new rules interfere with credit unions' founding values?
The Inside View
The RSPB teams up with Tesco
Tax Justice Campaign
How to spot a company that's got an ethical tax policy
News, comment and opinion including ...
- Toxic chemicals in clothes
- Students boycott beer
- Stop GM wheat
- Xerox and rainforest paper
- Underground coal gasification
- Readers' Letters, Cartoons...